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• We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!" Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts." "Big doubts?" I said weakly. The Russian scientist shrugged. "I am pessimist," he said.

  Kenneth Oppel

  Feelings, Doubt, Relief

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• When we are in love, our love is too big a thing for us to be able altogether to contain it within ourselves. It radiates towards the loved one, finds there a surface which arrests it, forcing it to return to its starting-point, and it is this repercussion of our own feeling which we call the other's feelings and which charms us more then than on its outward journey because we do not recognise it as having originated in ourselves.

  Marcel Proust

  Love Is, Journey, Feelings

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.223, Modern Library

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• I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, "You just haven't met the right girl yet.

  Tina Fey

  Girl, Country, Cousin

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• As Stephanie and Lula were going after the bad guys, Lula was making preparations from the trunk of her Firebird. Stephanie looked inside and stopped breathing for a beat. "That's a rocket launcher!" "Yep," Lula said. "It's a big boy. I got it at a yard sale in the projects.

  Janet Evanovich

  Boys, Breathing, Guy

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• Promise me, man. If anything ever happens to me, promise me you'll take care of Angelina. She's something special, Micah. Heart way too big for her own good. I worry because she doesn't see everyone for who they are. She's too busy looking for the good. I've tried to get her to adopt some cynicism, but the truth of the matter is, she wouldn't be the same girl if she did.

  Maya Banks

  Girl, Heart, Men

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• Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Beautiful, Attitude, Inner Beauty

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.8, HarperCollins Australia

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• tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.

  David Levithan

  Ocean, Thinking, Doe

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• How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline. The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall, saying nothing. She picked at her teeth with a long crimson-varnished fingernail, then she tapped the finger, gently, tap-tap-tap against the polished black surface of her black button eyes.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mother, Wall, Eye

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• And do you know what a full-fledged war would look like, Percy?" "Bad?" I guessed. "Imagine the world in chaos. Nature at war with itself. Olympians forced to choose sides between Zeus amd Poseidon. Destruction. Carnage. Millions dead. Western civilization turned into a battleground so big it will make the Trojan War look like a water-balloon fight." "Bad," I repeated.

  Rick Riordan

  War, Fighting, Civilization

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• Yes,” I told him. “I think the guy playing the Pirate King was awesome.” He stopped where he was. “What?” I asked, frowning at the big smile on his face. “I didn’t say I liked the Pirate King,” he told me. “Oh.” I closed my eyes—and there he was. A warm, edgy presence right on the edge of my perception. When I opened my eyes, he was standing right in front of me. “Cool,” I told him. “You’re back.” He kissed me leisurely. When he was finished, I was more than ready to head home. Fast. “You make me laugh,” he told me seriously.

  Patricia Briggs

  Kings, Home, Eye

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.211, Penguin

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• I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

  Dolly Parton

  Years, People, Shining

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• He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.

  James M. Barrie

  Moving, Boys, Fire

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.134, 谷月社

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• I'm about to rupture something," he was informed, as the big, gaily wrapped box she was carrying smacked into the small of his back again. She had an uncanny ability to hit the same spot every time.

  Karen Chance

  Rupture, Uncanny, Boxes

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• Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.

  Adam Rex

  Cat, Want, Way

  Jeramey Kraatz, Adam Rex, Adam Jay Epstein, Andrew Jacobson, Tim Green (2012). “Class Acts Kids' Ebook Sampler”, p.55, Harper Collins

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• The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze. A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark pupil shrank, focusing. Jack stood very still. The colossal head turned, the scaled lip only three feet from Jack. The golden eyes gazed at him, wirling with fiery color. Jack breathed in tiny, shallow breaths. Dont blink. Don't blink... Two gusts of wind erutped from the wyvern's nostrils Jack jumped straight up, bounced off the ground into another jump, and scrambled up the nearest tree. In the clearing, Gaston bent over, guffawing like an idiot. 'It's not funny!

  Ilona Andrews

  Eye, Dark, Color

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• It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.

  Dan Wells

  People, Killers, Shock

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• By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.

  Carl Sagan

  Space, Bangs, Horizon

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.287, Ballantine Books

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• Scientists estimate the universe unfolded from its state of infinite destiny* - a moment commonly referred to as "the big bang" - approximately 1.3-2 x 10^10 years ago. *Typo: "destiny" should read "density.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Destiny, Years, Typos

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• We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period.

  Jack Kerouac

  Running, Scotch, Car

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.56, BookBaby

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• It was like that class at school where the teacher talks about Realization, about how you could realize something big in a commonplace thing. The example he gave--and the liar said it really happened--was that once while drinking orange juice, he'd realized he would be dead someday. He wondered if we, his students, had had similar 'realizations.' Is he kidding? I thought. Once I cashed a paycheck and I realized it wasn't enough. Once I had food poisoning, and realized I was trapped inside my body.

  Amy Hempel

  Teacher, Liars, Drinking

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• everyone - you included - is on her best behavior in the beginning of a relationship. Sometimes little quirks turn out to be big ones, and the big advantage that women have - sometimes the only advantage - is their intuition.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Intuition, Littles, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jul 28, 2012

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• Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  People, Glimpse, Facts

  Lurlene McDaniel (2009). “Breathless”, p.138, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Why do you keep saying incarnations like I’m some kind of god?” It wasn’t a great question, but the real questions were so big that Kylar didn’t even know how ask them. “You are worshipped in a few remote areas where your master wasn’t very careful about showing the full extent of his powers.” “What?!

  Brent Weeks

  Real, Kind, Masters

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• And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.

  Tamora Pierce

  Believe, Eye, Giving

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Mastiff: The Legend of Beka Cooper #3”, p.262, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• You're attracted to him," Kylie said. "And don't try to deny it. You've even admitted that much to me." "Okay, I won't deny that. He's got that whole hard body, vampire magnetism going for him. But when I was young, I had a crush on Big Bird. That wouldn't have worked out either.

  C.C. Hunter

  Crush, Bird, Vampire

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